Today didn't go exactly as planned. No primer but it is sanded and hopefully primer will go up tomorrow.
I thought a pole sander would be a good idea for the ceiling. I'm not taking all the paint off but it still needs some sanding. I was already meeting a friend for lunch in Waxahachie so I went to Home Depot.
It wasn't exactly the miracle thing I was hoping for. It did OK on the walls but the ceilings are 10 feet high and I just couldn't get a good grip on it. I can't imagine a short person doing this.
Here's Johnathan helping me out.
What irritated me with this though is that I thought I would be able to take it off the pole and use my extension pole. Didn't work because it had the screw part on it. Two screw ends don't work. That was a wasted twenty bucks.
Walls before sanding:
Walls after:
I still have to go over the ridges with a wire brush.
Then I decided to go ahead and tear out this nasty cabinet that was to the left of the stove.
See below:
Under that was this jewel from the 80's:
Blue and pink flowers and mouse poop.
Then I found this!
It is from the cookbook Easy Cut Out Cakes. It was made by Baker's Coconut in 1973. What's so funny is that my mom had this same cook book. She didn't bake much but she made this cake every Easter. How crazy is this? So I looked it up on Ebay and someone was selling it so I bought it!! Mom never knew what happened to hers. She also made a Raggidy Ann cake from this book for my 1st birthday so I told her it would be cute if she made me one for my 40th in September. Ha
My other distraction today was this termite damage. Luckily it's old but I never knew termites made there home with dirt. It's this sandy, clumpy dirt at the top. I kept trying to sweep it out and would not come clean so how am I supposed to paint this and oh yeah, why don't we have a vent hood? (See how I get distracted?)
Which then led to this:
So I took a piece of the bead board down which was not easy. Bead board is tongue and groove. It's locked in.
There's dirt all behind about a three foot across area:
AND there is no vent behind there. Where is it? Why was it taken out? Why didn't anyone put one back in? I guess that's a mystery I won't solve. So what to do? Are we going to add one? Not at this time. I know the people who lived here before me lived here 7 years and did just fine. We'll figure that out later...
My other distraction is that on this wall is a door frame that goes into the dining room. Then I start thinking I should probably finish stripping that:
Victoria helping
I took off one of the boards and I mean seriously did it really need 15 nails to hold it up? One of the reasons I took it off is because when you are trying to go from 8 layers of paint back to bare wood and stain it, it is very difficult. Lots of stripping and sanding. I tried to get the other side off but it's apparently attached to a piece of the bead board and I can't get it off without messing it up and I've done enough damage today.
So, I'm covered in dust and my nails have never looked worse. That's dust and dirt. So nasty.
And here's my sweet Sprite. She didn't get anything on her she's just so cute.
Tomorrow I prime!
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